How bad/sad is this?

chavs meets the knobs I mean snobs,could be a soap in this somewhere

Be careful when backing onto a semi.

That's the first thing you need to look for when you buy a house - are their any rented properties nearby?

If it's for your own occupation of course.

And it pays to get one detached as well.

Here we go again ...   


   just state that your daughter has a nice house, or  simply...  a house !!  - no need to keep adding info such as 4 bed detached   ...likewise ,just say you have a car - no need to add the 2016 Mercedes convertible etc etc .

btw You can get troublesome neighbours anywhere these days ...pity you can't take out an insurance lol

Crippen -    the owners very often don't care who moves into THEIR home  - one up the street has been wrecked  - obviously no back checks could have been done . Seems like they're there for the duration  sts

Four bed detached sounds a nice little house LFV.

Better to be envied than pitied as they say.

Little five year old boy replied "why are you being nice to me mummy"?

I think I'll file that in my 'Things that nener happened' drawer.

forgot to add this fella 

I am lucky I don't get any noise from my neighbours as I own so much land around my mansion they just live too far away. I can now hear the hum of the electric gates since I've garaged the ferrari and am now driving the quieter Bentley.

Neighbours!!! That's why I bought my island in the Pacific Ocean. No roads so had to sell my Roller.

The trouble with neighbours is that they're people. And you know what they are like.

Best to keep in mind that you have to be prepared to move every ten years or so as neighbourhoods  go downhill .
This happens in every town and city in Britain.

If you live in a block of flats you may be lucky enough to have good neighbours , but that won't last much longer than 2 or 3 years.

Never buy a flat if some in the same block are rented out , its better just to rent .
Makes it easier to leave.

Good and valid points, I guess, Coach....I was just trying to set the scene!

This is quite a good site

https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/

The point that the OP raised is a good one.

Should we build new housing developments to include potential trouble spots in the form of affordable housing, or keep to the traditional model where if you pay a decent price for a house you expect to live in a decent area.
And not next door to the kinds of people mentioned in the first post.

Yes dave1357, useful site that.

Precisely Dr!

I would imagine that, in some cases, the better properties could be devalued because of current legislation!

It all looks fine, when the developments are new, but later the rot will set in!

Unkempt gardens, broken down old cars and vans, out of control kids and all the rest!

traditionally the areas  most at risk were those houses that  tended to be in the old victorian streets with cheap housing  - typically the type of houses  where  there are bins stacked out the front and no front garden ,normally inner city areas -   these  are cheap buys for certain Landlords - and they in turn don't care who lives in them .  Now it's spreading out - more and more decent areas being affected  . You can't buy a house with any guarantee you will get a good neighbor ...its impossible . Rural villages or out of the way places  with poor transport links are a decent  shout though as waster families  prefer town life .

   inclusive housing is OK but tenents need to be vetted  - there should be a system like a driving licence  where you get points for evictions .... and it also means there is  a points  total requirement for nice houses   .

tenants even  - most of the bad buggers are well versed in what they can /can't get away with

I may have to move, I didn't realise that 4 Scottish people live in my postcode.

define a good/bad neighbor